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The newest game on Dr Mike’s Math Games for Kids is the oldest – you can search for your name in the digits of pi!
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What?? More Graph Paper??
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There are three quick items for today’s newsletter – the main one is that I’ve just uploaded yet another set of graph paper to print out. 
Triangular Graph Paper This time, it’s triangular graph paper – tesselations of equilateral triangles. Again, the tesselations come in various sizes, from 1 mm to 1 inch. Besides just showing a nice regular pattern, triangular graph paper is useful for graphing relationships between three different quantities whose sum is a constant – for a silly example, you could plot how much you spend on milk, butter and cheese, given a fixed “dairy” budget.
Speaking of graph paper, if you tried to download the Hexagonal Graph Paper I announced last time, the broken links on the page are now fixed! Come to the site and try again!
Last week, I also told you about a new iPhone game in the works. Well, the first version of Black Jelly Bean is now available for iPhone and iPad! More updates to follow…
Bye for now!
Michael Hartley
Apple Cutting Puzzle
When I cut an apple for my kids, I normally cut it into 6 pieces. I give the biggest piece to my younger son, since he insists on only eating one piece, but I want him to eat more apple.
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Mitt Romney’s Education Policy
Several months ago, I wrote to all potential 2013 Presidents and inquired about their views on education. The only reply I received was from Barack Obama.
However, Mitt Romney’s website allows me to receive pre-prepared emails on certain policy issues. So, I entered my email address, hit “send”, and quickly got his canned response. Since the other Republican candidates had dropped out of the race by then (or didn’t, but can’t win anyway), I didn’t bother pursuing the matter further with them.
I’ll comment further on the replies received from Obama and Romney soon, but for now, here’s what Team Romney had to say on education.
Writing Practice
The danger of living with a mathematician is that sometimes your grade 1 writing practice is like this :
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[DMMGFK #59] Hexagonal tiling graph paper to print
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Watch This Space – I’ve made a new iPhone/iPad puzzle game and uploaded it to the App Store – Apple is reviewing it, when it’s approved and available I’ll announce it here. Stay tuned, Apple fans!
Continue reading [DMMGFK #59] Hexagonal tiling graph paper to print
Draw A Picture
Math is a very visual subject.
I made this ‘meme‘ on a calculus topic, but it applies equally well to a whole bunch of other areas.
Djokovic vs Federer vs Rob Minto
Via twitter : Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic often seem to face each other in the semifinals. Too often. This article by Rob Minto tries to explain that the chance of them meeting in any one competition should be 50/50. However, they’ve met 16 times out of 21 instead. Rob asks : is this too many?
[DMMGFK #58] Archimedean tiling graph paper to print
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Many centuries ago, one of the greatest thinkers of all time wrote a book about some beautiful symmetric shapes. All we know about what he wrote is from quotations by other writers many centuries later. Today, these beautiful shapes are called the Archimedean polyhedra.
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The Best Transit Ever
Unless you’ve just arrived from another planet, you’d know that an incredibly rare astronomical event recently passed – the transit of Venus.